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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Petty tyrant wants you to know he will be "forced" to unleash pain on workers.

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Petty tyrant wants you to know he will be "forced" to unleash pain on workers.

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-operator-kills-vacations-hikes-prices-calif-wage-law-2024-1

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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    If you canot afford to pay your workers a decent wage, then it is irresponsible for you to own a business.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It means you don’t have a viable business plan lol

      If you can’t cover any other cost of doing business, it’s “aw shucks that’s unfortunate, this is why most businesses go under, better luck next time.” But if you can’t cover payroll it’s supposed to be different?

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yup, cut the woe is me shit. All your employees are hopefully just going to fo somewhere that didn’t do all of that.

      If you can’t figure out how to run a business if you are actually required to pay your employees you shouldn’t have a business.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      Okay, but then where will I get my Fat burgers?

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Up ya bum

        • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          ron-devouring-his-pudding

        • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]@hexbear.netM
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          And around the corner!

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Don’t worry the invisible hand will provide

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Bussiness man: i deserve profit because i take risks!

      Same dude: i should be completely sheltered from any consequences of the risks i take

    • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Im still processing this. California is a corporatized hell scape. And when large companies can write laws that give them the advantage they will. Creating sudden up front costs is a way larger companies can edge out smaller competitors.

      • wopazoo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        i don’t care about the plight of small business owners

        • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Fair enough. But California is a large place with diverse economic situations. And Id hate for every restaurant to be McDonald’s. so i guess my concern will come out in the wash. we’ll see if this creates a greater monopoly eventually. Also im a small business owner.

          • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            diversity is when more borger places and the more borger places the more diverser it is

            pay a living wage or sell to someone who can. ideally the state.

            • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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              Right. I think you’re missing my point. Unfortunately we dont live under socialism.

              • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                agitating for better workers’ comp is how we get there. protecting smol bean business owner profits solves nothing.

                • Spongebobsquarejuche [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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                  But is that what we’re doing? Having business owner foot the bill for workers comp is more of the same. We do that already and the actual solution is to have the state perform that function. This solution just cuts out people that cant afford the new regulation. Leaving the large player who can afford it. Furthering wealth disparity.

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    Just gotta squeeze “family-owned” in there somewhere 🙄

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Are you questioning the wholesomeness of having his kids listed as the owners of several of his restaurants to reduce his tax liability?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Boater kulak uses family as rhetorical human shields against struggling employees who also have families, many such cases!

  • Grownbravy [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m a small business owner, and I’m preparing for the new $20 minimum wage by smashing my dick with this hammer

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      by smashing my employees’ dicks with this hammer

      Followed shortly by

      nobody wants to get their dicks smashed anymore

      • Grownbravy [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Dick Smashing hours were cut, gotta help pull weight around here

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        I-was-saying

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    raising menu prices, reducing staff, and making the staff angry at the business will surely be a good long-term play for the business!

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The business goes under because no one wants to eat there because it’s overpriced and understaffed. This guy is going to blame the minimum wage increase.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        frothingfash BIG GOVERNMENT drove me out of business and oh NOBODY WANTS TO WORK (15-25 hours a week with 100% availability)

  • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    i swear these guys all look the same. it’s like reality is doing generative AI but for boomer petty bourgeoisie

    maybe natural selection will give them all an 11th finger so they’ll be easier to identify in the post-revolution exodus

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Of course he uses a picture of himself in front of an in-ground pool

    Gotta remind everyone what he stands to lose if he’s forced to pay people what they actually earn

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    Kulaks gonna kulak.

  • Yllych [any]@hexbear.net
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    So things would run smoother without your petty bourgeois ass in the way? Hmmm good to know thank you sir

  • Sleve_McDichael [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “Small business tyrant” is my favorite phrase I’ve added to my lexicon from this place. It’s caught on with some of my friends too lmao

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    A Fatburger operator told Business Insider how the pay hike was impacting his family-owned stores

    • Fatburger. This name is the essence of burgerpunk. If you made it up as a joke it would be too over the top.
    • Small business tyrant pissing and moaning over having to treat employees with a minimum of decency.
    • Family-owned. We’re supposed to think some poor old grandma is feeling really sad about this
    • Stores. Plural. This guy owns several stores but somehow he’s the victim who’s being squeezed

    This sentence is one of the most profoundly American things I have ever read.

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Their burgers are pretty meh tbh

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    Oh man, if we didn’t raise minimum wage fast food would be so much cheaper. Thats why where the minimum wage is still $7.25 a Big Mac still costs $4.77.

    Wait, a Big Mac doesn’t still cost $4.77? Oh shit oh fuck.

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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    If your business doesn’t have the finances to pay a decent wage, maybe you should have run it better shrug-outta-hecks

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    The argument I used to believe when I was young but now never do is “if we pay fast food workers 15 an hour, the price of a burger will double in price too”

    For reference, minimum wage hourly rate in my state is roughly half of 15 dollars (like it is almost everywhere) so the idea was that doubling minimum wage would double the cost of goods sold.

    That doesn’t make any sense. Sure, the cost will rise, but by no means does it mean that the cost will double. There is no economic law or observed rule that conclusively states that an increase in minimum wage equates to a dollar per dollar cost per item. It’s just funny that I used to think that was true until I actually thought about it and realized how little sense it made

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      Cost won’t rise because cost is determined by what people will pay for it rather than what it costs to produce. Any price rise is based on competition in the local area and whether it will decrease total customers.

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        Well, no, it’s a factor but. LTV and all that. Which still doesn’t mean higher wages means higher prices, I think.

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          LTV isn’t about price.

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            yeah no i guess i didn’t think it did, was sort of worried you were taking the supply/demand narrative at face value but i’m dumb

        • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Marx on the relationship between wages and prices

          As we suppose that no change whatever has taken place either in the productive powers of labour, or in the amount of capital and labour employed, or in the value of the money wherein the values of products are estimated, but only a change in the rate of wages, how could that rise of wages affect the prices of commodities? Only by affecting the actual proportion between the demand for, and the supply of these commodities.

          https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

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            Makes sense

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      ahh but you see, this smol bean business owner only sells one borger per employee so the cost has to double

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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      There’s counties with higher minimum wages that also have McDonald’s but their burgers are only slightly more expensive, like under a buck.

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    I love that when they were going to approve minimum wage increases, folks were whining that it would destroy all of those jobs.

    Now that the increase is happening, instead of those jobs disappearing, suddenly there are SO MANY that it’s giving every worker a chance to just switch jobs.

    econony

  • moujikman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    These are all franchisees. These people have no real power other than controlling labor costs.

    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      “I’m a small business owner!” no, deary, you’re just the fall guy for a massive international firm. For a fraction of the profits, you get the privilege of holding all the risk of actually operation a restaurant.

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        I think they actually get almost all of the profits of the store. The fast food company makes money from the franchise license, rent, and supplying the equipment and food

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          Correct. The corp gets paid first out of the gross, totally protected. Franchisees only wiggle room to increase their profit is labor costs.

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            Technically they could also just increase revenue with better marketing and customer service but we all know they would never try that first over slashing employee operating expenses

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              Well yeah, that would actually take work and require them to spend money. Fucking with prols is free, and they enjoy it

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            deleted by creator

            • Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              I wonder if anyone has ever looked into the idea that labor is the source of all profits curious-marx

        • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          yes, though restaurants are notorious for low profit margins

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        Ablative business shielding

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